Chmod 777 to a folder and all contents

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I have a web directory  www and a folder in that directory called store   Within store are several files and folders  I want to give the folder store and all files and folders within the store folder all permissions    How do I do this  I am guessing via  htaccess

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This didn t work for me   sudo chmod -R 777  path to your file or directory   I used -f also   sudo chmod -R -f 777  path to your file or directory

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Yes  very right that the -R option in chmod command makes the files sub-directories under the given directory will get 777 permission  But generally  it s not a good practice to give 777 to all files and dirs as it can lead to data insecurity  Try to be very specific on giving all rights to all files and directories  And to answer your question   chmod -R 777 your directory name       will work

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If by all permissions you mean 777  Navigate to folder and  chmod -R 777

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for mac  should be a    superuser do      so first    sudo -s  password    and then   chmod -R 777 directory path

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You can also use chmod 777     This will give permissions to all files currently in the folder and files added in the future without giving permissions to the directory itself   NOTE  This should be done in the folder where the files are located  For me it was an images that had an issue so I went to my images folder and did this

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You can give permission to folder and all its contents using option -R i e Recursive permissions  But I would suggest not to give 777 permission to all folder and it s all contents  You should give specific permission to each sub-folder in www directory folders  Ideally  give 755 permission for security reasons to the web folder  sudo chmod -R 755  www store  Each number has meaning in permission  Do not give full permission  N   Description                      ls   binary     0   No permissions at all            ---  000 1   Only execute                     --x  001 2   Only write                       -w-  010 3   Write and execute                -wx  011 4   Only read                        r--  100 5   Read and execute                 r-x  101 6   Read and write                   rw-  110 7   Read  write  and execute         rwx  111   First Number 7 - Read  write  and execute for the user  Second Number 5 - Read and execute for the group  Third Number 5 - Read and execute for others   If your production web folder has multiple users  then you can set permissions and user groups accordingly  More info    Understanding File Permissions  What Does    Chmod 777  Mean  What file permissions should I set on web root  Why shouldn t  var www have chmod 777

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If you are going for a console command it would be    chmod -R 777  www store  The -R  or --recursive  options make it recursive   Or if you want to make all the files in the current directory have all permissions type   chmod -R 777     If you need more info about chmod command see  File permission

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